Erna Lincke

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Erna Lincke (born June 15, 1899 in Dresden ; † February 28, 1986 there ) was a German artist .

Life

Lincke studied from 1916 to 1921 the subjects of architecture and art education at the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden with Paul Hermann and Alexander Baranowsky and in 1923 with Carl Rade . She then worked as an art teacher in Zittau until 1927 . In 1927 she married the painter Hans Christoph (1901–1992). They returned to Dresden together.

Lincke was a member of the artist group " Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists " (ASSO) and from 1928 was a freelance painter. She was a founding member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 . In the same year she had her first solo exhibition at the Sächsischer Kunstverein .

Even in the early days of National Socialism in 1933, her naturalistic pictures were viewed as " degenerate ". An exhibition ban was imposed. In the Second World War , Lincke was drafted into the war as a technical draftsman. During the bombing raid on Dresden in February 1945, her studio on Ostbahnstrasse was destroyed and almost all of her work was lost. Only a few of her pictures have survived.

After the war, she and her husband were founding members of the Dresden artist group “ Der Ruf ”, after which they both joined the group “ Das Ufer ”. From 1950 to 1953 Lincke was chairwoman of the " Association of Visual Artists Dresden" and from 1957 to 1975 chairwoman of the Dresden cooperative " Kunst der Zeit ". Her pictures have been exhibited in both the GDR and the FRG, as well as in Leningrad and Prague. In 1969 she received the GDR Medal of Merit for her artistic and cultural-political work. Finally, in 1978 she was awarded the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden. She died in her hometown of Dresden in 1986 and is buried in the Loschwitz cemetery .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: Erna Lincke . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 267 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (and others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 190, 374.

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personal data
SURNAME Lincke, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1986
Place of death Dresden